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The Sports Xchange By Michael Kelly, The Sports Xchange Nuggets nip Mavs, end home losing streak DENVER -- As the home losses kept mounting, the mood in Pepsi Center grew more cynical. Health was an issue, but for a Denver Nuggets team that lost just three home games all of last season, dropping five in a row on their own court was wearing on the players and coaches no matter what the reason. "It's been a long time," Denver coach Brian Shaw said. The wait is over.

Nets shake off loss, crush Nuggets DENVER -- In 2002, after his New Jersey Nets team came to Denver and beat the Nuggets by 26, Jason Kidd described the game as a glorified practice. Twelve years later, Kidd, now coach of the Brooklyn Nets, probably got a sense of deja vu. Forward Paul Pierce scored 18 points before sitting out the entire fourth quarter, and the Nets raced out to a big lead early and never relented in a 112-89 win over the Nuggets on Thursday night.

SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Trail Blazers at Nuggets The Denver Nuggets are trying to keep from falling out of the Western Conference playoff race, which makes this week's two games against the Portland Trail Blazers even more crucial. The Nuggets host the Trail Blazers on Tuesday and then visit Portland on Saturday amidst a stretch of seven losses in eight games that has led them to fall into 11th place in the West. Portland is 2-1 without All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge, who will again sit out Tuesday.

The Sports Xchange By Michael Kelly, The Sports Xchange Kings 109, Nuggets 95 DENVER -- Forward Rudy Gay scored 32 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, guard Isaiah Thomas added 33 points, and the Sacramento Kings beat the Denver Nuggets 109-95 Sunday night. Center DeMarcus Cousins had 27 points and nine rebounds for the Kings, who won their second game in a row. Guard Evan Fournier scored a career-high 27 points and guard Randy Foye also had 27 for Denver, which lost for the seventh time in eight games.

The Sports Xchange Nuggets 101, Bucks 90 MILWAUKEE -- Forward Kenneth Faried led Denver with 26 points as the Nuggets snapped a five-game losing streak with a 101-90 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Faried went 11-of-15 from the field, pacing a Nuggets offense that shot 51 percent and sank 8 of 18 3-pointers. Forward Wilson Chandler hit all three of his 3-point attempts and was 6 of 8 overall to finish with 15 points while center J.J. Hickson added 14 with 10 rebounds.

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Suns 112, Nuggets 107 (OT) Suns 112, Nuggets 107 (OT): Gerald Green set a career high with 36 points as visiting Phoenix needed extra time to dispose of Denver. Green notched eight of his points in overtime and tied a career-high with six 3-pointers for the Suns, who had lost three of their last four games prior to the All-Star break. Goran Dragic added 21 points and a season-high 14 assists and P.J. Tucker and Markieff Morris each notched 13 points, while combining for 23 rebounds.

A federal judge in Utah has imposed a preliminary injunction on Aereo 's operations, a win for broadcasters as they seek to halt the startup streaming service in Salt Lake City and Denver. "Based on the plain language of the 1976 Copyright Act and the clear intent of Congress, this court concludes that Aereo is engaging in copyright infringement of Plaintiffs' programs," wrote U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball in a ruling issued on Wednesday. "Despite its attempt to design a device or process outside the scope of the 1976 Copyright Act, Aereo's device or process transmits Plaintiffs' copyrighted programs to the public."

DENVER (Reuters) - A neo-Nazi parolee murdered Colorado's prison chief last year after forcing a pizza delivery man whom he kidnapped and later killed to record a message denouncing the prison system, federal prosecutors said in a court filing released on Monday. The disclosure is the first time authorities have publicly stated that ex-convict Evan Spencer Ebel killed the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tom Clements, and 27-year-old pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon.